Troilus and Cressida — Act 4, Scene 3: The same. Street before Pandarus' house.

Paris, Troilus, Aeneas, Deiphobus, Antenor, and Diomedes gather in the street at daybreak for the handover of Cressida. Paris reminds Troilus that the appointed hour for delivering her to the Greek has arrived and tells him to go inside and prepare her. Troilus sends Paris into the house and says that when he gives Cressida to Diomedes, it will be like a priest offering his own heart at an altar. Paris answers that he understands love and wishes he could help Troilus, then invites the others inside and the group exits.

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It is great morning, and the hour prefix'd

Of her delivery to this valiant Greek

Comes fast upon. Good my brother Troilus,

Tell you the lady what she is to do,

And haste her to the purpose.

Walk into her house;

I'll bring her to the Grecian presently:

And to his hand when I deliver her,

Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus

A priest there offering to it his own heart.

I know what 'tis to love;

And would, as I shall pity, I could help!

Please you walk in, my lords.